, the recriminations are immediate. people saying it was romney's fault, it was romney's fault. interesting, paul ryan issued a statement saying, polite saying thank you for the opportunity, we don't know what happens to him. but the party won't spend a lot of time fretting over him, i think. >> he ran a strong campaign. the problem he had was the democrats, especially the campaign, the obama campaign, the super pacs, over the summer, after he got the nomination, they painted him in such a negative way, that strategy of hammering away at bain capital, the swiss bank accounts, the cayman islands and the 47% tape came out, that controversial tape, it really hurt him. he did well in the first debate, almost recovered, got it close, got to give him some credit, but that negative attack on him, it really was successful when all -- negative politics sometimes works. >> sure does. and in some i was hways it has harder for him today. let's turn our attention on the governing challenge. the most popular member of the obama cabinet is the secretary of state hillary clinton. she has given hints she might stay on